I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.
I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'
I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.
[first lines] title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.
